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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Origins of Virtue
Rousseau famously believed that people were good, and that human institutions made them as malevolent and evil as they might become. Does that explain why we're less averse, to the extent? Well, i think it's the same phenomenon. And so it still seems to me that work that concentrates on demonstrating how much better things are getting is very much worth putting forward. But despite that, you make a really good case in the origins of virtue, that morality itself, has a biological basis, and that it grounded in our evolutionary history.
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